title: The rule of ignorance: a polemic on medicine, English health service policy, and history.
authors.affiliation: Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. john.pickstone@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: John V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Pickstone
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000266:history*; D006291:Health Policy; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom